NHS Data Shows That UK ‘Freedom Day’, a PR Stunt of UK Conservatives, Was a Costly Mistake
Related: Mass infection is not an option: we must do more to protect our young
From the official NHS data: (annotated for improved clarity)
Related: Mass infection is not an option: we must do more to protect our young
From the official NHS data: (annotated for improved clarity)
Quick and effective way to respond to so-called ‘COVID deniers’ (who think that nothing exceptional happened).
The numbers:
May 21 37,864
Apr 21 41,513
Mar 21 48,624
Feb 21 58,767
Jan 21 73,315
Dec 20 56,614
Nov 20 51,330
Oct 20 46,296
Sep 20 42,500
Aug 20 37,187
Jul 20 40,780
Jun 20 42,624
May 20 52,374
Imagine how worse if would have been if no lock-downs were imposed.
By week:
Week Weekly Average 19 Nov 21 12,103 10,350 12 Nov 21 12,050 10,331 5 Nov 21 11,550 9,891 29 Oct 21 10,987 9,759 22 Oct 21 11,308 9,865 15 Oct 21 11,177 9,811 8 Oct 21 10,807 9,555 1 Oct 21 10,510 9,377 24 Sep 21 10,684 9,264 17 Sep 21 11,009 9,306 10 Sep 21 11,035 9,182 3 Sep 21 8,797 8,241 27 Aug 21 10,268 9,157 20 Aug 21 10,013 9,085 13 Aug 21 10,372 9,102 6 Aug 21 10,187 9,036 30 Jul 21 10,135 9,052 23 Jul 21 9,744 9,093 16 Jul 21 9,697 9,250 9 Jul 21 9,752 9,183 2 Jul 21 8,808 9,293 25 Jun 21 8,690 9,404 18 Jun 21 9,459 9,417 11 Jun 21 10,204 9,977 4 Jun 21 7,778 8,171 27 May 21 9,628 9,940 21 May 21 9,860 10,188 14 May 21 10,164 9,576 7 May 21 7,986 9,941 30 Apr 21 9,692 10,458 23 Apr 21 9,941 10,497 16 Apr 21 10,428 10,520 9 Apr 21 9,098 10,305 2 Apr 21 8,201 10,130 26 Mar 21 10,045 10,573 19 Mar 21 10,311 11,205 12 Mar 21 10,987 11,498 5 Mar 21 11,592 11,183 26 Feb 21 12,614 11,548 19 Feb 21 13,809 11,627 12 Feb 21 15,354 11,925 5 Feb 21 17,192 12,206 29 Jan 21 18,448 12,760 22 Jan 21 18,676 13,216 15 Jan 21 18,042 13,822 8 Jan 21 17,751 12,175 1 Jan 21 10,069 7,954
Pre-pandemic, excess deaths, per week:
Week 2018 2019 2020 2021 Week 47 -93 758 2,155 1,753 Week 46 89 424 1,904 1,719 Week 45 148 555 1,481 1,659 Week 44 -163 387 996 1,228 Week 43 2 347 980 1,443 Week 42 262 430 669 1,366 Week 41 138 322 143 1,252
Although the government barely releases any new hospitalisation-related numbers (almost none since Christmas), some have put the numbers together and show that in January 2nd 2021 there were 2829 hospitalisations in England compared to 1971 in January 2nd 2022, i.e. three days ago.
Hospitalisations related to COVID-19 are soaring again.
Source: Vaccine_surveillance_report week_49
Total deaths in the period studied/surveyed: 3310
Total deaths of people who did not receive a COVID-19 vaccine: 700 (21.11% of the total)
The footnote which puts this into better context: “In the context of very high vaccine coverage in the population, even with a highly effective vaccine, it is expected that a large proportion of cases, hospitalisations and deaths would occur in vaccinated individuals, simply because a larger proportion of the population are vaccinated than unvaccinated and no vaccine is 100% effective. This is especially true because vaccination has been prioritised in individuals who are more susceptible or more at risk of severe disease. Individuals in risk groups may also be more at risk of hospitalisation or death due to non-COVID-19 causes, and thus may be hospitalised or die with COVID-19 rather than because of COVID-19.”
Update: Today is the last day of the year and here’s what the data (latest) looks like today:
Some “surge”, eh?
Update #2 (January 7th): 12 days have passed. Let’s revisit the data from the official source.
Is this a surge?
2022 will surely be even worse, seeing that yesterday we had an all-time high of nearly 80,000 confirmed cases in just one day
See: Mass infection is not an option: we must do more to protect our young
Source data: NHS (official)
Data source: NHS
My interpretation: The vaccines did lower the numbers, but not by much. Number patients in mechanical ventilation beds right now: 900+. Same time last year (before AZ mass vaccination): 1,200+.
It’s an improvement, but not a massive improvement. Considering we now know a lot more about how to treat COVID-19 patients.
I keep watching the excess deaths/mortality figures, which are summarised in a weekly report here (updated every Thursday).
It’s not about bashing anything, it’s about analysing the data to understand the science and reject dogmatic business marketing.
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